The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-03

the gaze of the multitudes have changed their
minds about resortinc to Tuxedo, with it's rapid
life, audacious sports and general shoviness.
At all events, there is to be club-like system
this year of voting new memberships, and a
single blackball cast in a committee OF ten will
mean that the candidate isn't good enough for
Tuxedo.
Sarah Bernhardt and her costumes are an
swerable for much female ugliness in New York
at present There is material difference, as
well as difference of material, in the makeup
OF Sarah and the American women-the same
difference that there is in umbrella shut and
an umbrella open. Sarah, who could chalk her
head and play billiard-cue. or braid her limbs
and pass for whip. is much given to fluffy
trimmings, ruchings, puffiugs AID masses of lace
and layers of rufiies. The ordinary, everyday
fank has something more than a vertebral col
umn on which to hang her frocks, and directly
she goes to copying Bernhardt's costume she is
wrecked. The advice that Worth, the man mil
liner gave to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is as good
now as the day he cave it. Mrs. Lincoln had .
figure like Mrs. Camp, but she concluded that
Worth should make her some dresses: so she
sent her photograph, a diagram of her promi-
nent places, a map of her boundaries and prin-
clpal annexations, with few minor details 10
the famous woman maker. That worthy stud
led his instructions. and rendered this verdict:
II can do no more for Madame than the
American modiste 1t is with hone-bones 1
that are not fat, and avoid all garments that are
not dark"
Sarah wore. the first week of her engagement
here, mauve surah opening over loose loops Of
Lace. Straps of violet velvet banded this mass
down. and here and there glimpse of the great
| actress clavicles cleaned and glinted through.
| An ample lady in the same hotel saw this gown,
| and determined to reproduce II. She had dress
made exactly like the great tragedennes, but it
| lacked the soft, clingine appearance of sarahs
| robe. and friend suggested that the fault lay
| in the corsets. Bernhardt wears no corsets.
''OH corsets, then" said the plump one, aud Off
| hers came. She has been wearing that gown
| up and down the corridors of the hotel and maxi
| ing what the English chambermaids call, "An
'oly 'orror hof 'erself" for between the coIfning
straps there are g series of bulges that speak
Well for the cuisine of the establishment
| But perhaps Madame Addie Pose is better cff
than Miss Emma Cated, who lately went to a
constructor OF hosiery for the theatrical profess
sion. s'You see" explained Miss Emma TO the
| attendant Il am very slender. and the present
fashion of tying back the skirts tightly is not
| at all becoming to me"
| The clerk failed to understand, and suggested
| that she was in search of pair of symnetries,
| by which name Tie stockings of quality
| known. No the girl said, when shown these
articles, ''they would not alter my affecting case
| at ALL
| So the forewoman was called, and in the re-
cesses OF an inner apartment Emma confessed it
was her knees that gave her much trouble.
| When she sat down with tightly wrapped. cling
ing drapery pulled over them they stuck out like
| tbs knobs on doors So the costumer is weaving
pair of stockings to be worn under all her
| others-a sort of skeleton stocking, that has
stirrup instead of foot, is flmy about the
ankles, but by graduated Jumps of silken foes
gets gracefully bulgy, while the sharp knee
cap OF poor Emma will be securely packed away
| IN bed of padding, over which the most fashion
able skirt can be stretched without the anguari-
ty that has darkened her fashionable season.
| -
Il don't imagine women are greatly interested
in high license said prejudced observer.
''She must be a noodle who believes a stop can
be put to mans drink and the wise ones know
that the heaviest and most disastrous drinking is
done in the. drug stores If every cabinet
decorated. stained-glass whisky mill in New
York was shut up. the injury done by alcoholic
liquors would be ten times as great Men would
pasronze the apothecary. and under cover of the
medical cloak flt drunkard's graves" Some Of
the inte nse temperance people holding meet
lngs. and trying to discover a new Cough. They
thought they had found him in pale, intellect
ual young man, who arose in an uptown church.
He was sad-eyed, meek chap, with a clear,
fu1 voice. and he began by saying that he felt
lhpelled to relate his experience. For Years he
had been the slave of the bottle-for years he had
been under its thrall. He spoke almost with
tears of his complete prostration. His mothers
prayers had risen countless times from beside a
bed where he lay utterly incapable of speech or
locomotion, His auditors wept. He described
his gradual escape from the bottle-how his
manhood asserted itself He burst the bonds
that bound him to the terrible bottle. The au-
dence gave vent to great rejoicing. After a
glowing peroration the speaker sat down. and
[ the sisters pressed UP and shook him by the
hand, while the elders glowed with enthusiasm.
But even while the excitement of this thrilling
speech was upon them, the pallid man rose and
said he might as we'll mention that the reign OF
the bottle was during his first year Of ife and
it vas always filed with milk. Temperance
meetings don't Ike sells, and tho meek epeaker
, | was hustled out in a hurry, while the congrega
I tion were requested to sing Sparkling aud
bright in its liquid light is the water in oul
glasses"
Stories of actor-worship by senseless New
! | York girls are not so numerous nowadays al
they were few years ago. Perhaps that is be-
cause the proper material is less abundant. But
there is great deal of idiotic female alteration
running to waste Kyrle Bellew of Wal
lacks, and its extent would hardly be believed
by people who have become incredulous Of this
) sort of gossip. Bellew is far from handsome
and yet this is the actual form of silly young
girls order for seats at Wallacks boxoffice, re
> Gently: ''Are you quite Ker-ley Bell-yor
will act next Saturday afternoon2 We'll, yor
! may give me two seats, and / positively won'
5 take them unless they are down near the boxes
4 because l always have bunch of flowers tt
D throw at his feet, and think he is just lovely!
D | The words were overheard by me, and they art
not in the least distorted. The Boston Museum
is. so I am told. tho Wallack's OF the Hub in th
strange respect It's matinees have always beer
I attended largely by girls. Years ago that hand
! some blonde, Charles A. Stevenson, wa,
their ideal, and there some excuse for them
= because his insonciant bearing was an artistic
8 study. After he went away, married Kat,
0 Claxton, and became portly. he succeeded
in the Boston girls hearts by Jack Mason
goodlooking young man, whose drawling elocu
t ton and generally tired movements &C
) cepted as artistic by the Boston fair sex, and h
was thoroughly adored If he seemed sleepy OF
the stage occasionally. added t.
his personality, and when he and Sadie Martino
$ began to play sentimental roles with grea
+ deal of genuine fervor the matinee gossiper
, were wild with excitement 1t must have beei
\ shock to female Boston TO know that Masol
!, had never succeeded in attracting similar New
!. York attention. though he has good opportuni
, ties. Joseph Haworth at the Museum will
Mason, and for time he too, in high fem
: iniLe favor But ne got to doing earnest AM
. vigorous work. and he soon ceased to be ladies
. actor. CLARA BELLE.